BONE-COVERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bone-covered mean? 

• BONE-COVERED (adjective)
  The adjective BONE-COVERED has 1 sense:

1. (of animals) armored with bone

  Familiarity information: BONE-COVERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONE-COVERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of animals) armored with bone

Similar:

armored; armoured (used of animals; provided with protective covering)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

 Context examples 

When the time comes I will describe that wondrous moonlit night upon the great lake when a young ichthyosaurus—a strange creature, half seal, half fish, to look at, with bone-covered eyes on each side of his snout, and a third eye fixed upon the top of his head—was entangled in an Indian net, and nearly upset our canoe before we towed it ashore; the same night that a green water-snake shot out from the rushes and carried off in its coils the steersman of Challenger's canoe.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)